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History Club Activities 2007 - 2008

Our History Majors still manage to have fun despite their demanding courses. The History Club has sponsored a film series over the past year with such movies as Gladiator and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. They also held a festival in the Spring 2008 which included a trivia bowl, putting items into a Loyola Time Capsule, and hearing an alumni panel discuss what they have done with their history degrees.

Helping others

Students receive prestigious Schweitzer Fellowships

Three Loyola students were recently selected for the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Fellowship program and will spend the next year working on health care related projects to help underserved communities in Chicago.

Quinlan

Five Loyola students recently took home the top two prizes in a marketing research competition—and with it, an all-expense paid trip to New York City to learn from some of the industry’s biggest players.

Videos

The service of faith and the promotion of justice is the mission of the Society of Jesus. Our 2014 Founders’ Dinner awards recipients are among the best and brightest examples of living out these Jesuit ideals.

Athletics

Loyola’s student-athletes continue to impress in the classroom with 11 Rambler programs posting perfect Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores of 1,000 as the NCAA released its most recent figures. Fourteen of Loyola's 15 intercollegiate athletic programs posted an APR score of 983 or higher.

Fine Arts

Recent theatre grad wins Jeff Award

Although theatre major Sarah Espinoza just graduated in May, she’s already a seasoned pro. On June 8, she took home a Jeff Award in sound design for her work on The Arsonists at Chicago’s Strawdog Theatre Company.

School of Education

See how Loyola’s innovative curriculum gets students ready to teach—right away. Thanks to a partnership with Chicago Public Schools, the School of Education is giving undergraduates the chance to learn directly from working teachers.

Internship

Aqela Rahman, a student in Loyola’s School of Social Work, works as a refugee resettlement intern at Catholic Charities. “I loved seeing my clients adjusting to their new country and enjoying life here,” Rahman says.

In the news

Stritch School of Medicine professor Dale Gerding, MD, is featured in the New York Times for his groundbreaking research into C. diff., a deadly bacterium that kills close to 30,000 people a year in the United States alone.

In the classroom

Engineering program starts this fall

Loyola’s new engineering science program will kick off this fall and offer students plenty of hands-on opportunities. “I worked in the industry, so I want to make sure that the program we develop is as practical as possible,” said Gail Baura, PhD, director of the program.